skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this sentiment as well, but my OCD requires me to inform you that the word you want is "piquing"
I’m looking at the list and trying to figure out if there is an API to extract the text from a PDF? Or retrieve it as vectors / embeddings?
I built my first electric guitar with wood from a construction site junk pile and hand tools. I've built my work bench from wood that came from heavy-weight pallets (some random hardish wood from China) that were given away by someone on Craigslist. I have piles of wood sitting in my driveway that are from trunks of a tree cut down that were cut into slabs using a chainsaw.

Tools-wise I bought a used bandsaw for cheap. Added a riser block and made it a pretty awesome tool. I bought a jointer from someone down the street, again for cheap, replaced the knives and it's pretty good. You can get started for reasonably cheap.
According to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, there never exists a complete set of types of people, because there’s always one more type — people writing about those types.
I'll keep an eye on this extension.

With this, what DuckDB just added and pgvector, we're seeing a blurring of the lines. Back in 2021, there wasn't a RDBMS that had native vector support. But native vector integration makes it possible for txtai to just run SQL-driven vector queries...exciting times.

I think systems that bet on existing databases eventually catching up (as is txtai's model) vs trying to reinvent the entire database stack will win out.
> I’m not convinced that making interfaces so simple and “intuitive” that anyone can truly learn them on their own is even possible, maybe not even desirable since it encourages more of that kind of rugged individualism in computing and eliminates a lot of creative potential through locked-down apps and systems.

This is exactly what the adfarms (Facebook, Google, etc) want.

> I see a lot more value in community support, good documentation and accessible learning resources.

This is exactly what they don't want. This costs money.

I agree with the article, but unfortunately the incentives of the adfarms are not aligned with allowing users to learn for themselves. Gotta keep them engaged so they can look at ads instead, which means things must be brain dead simple.
The Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) feature in llama.cpp likely acts as a built-in way to do something like using the "reverse-prompt" / "cfg-negative-prompt" flags in "main".
The goal of each step is to weed out the maximum number of applicants possible that you actually want weeded out. A quick FizzBuzz before the phone screen should clear enough of a number out to justify its existence.

And, again, it should be something doable in under a minute. The best I've seen is a bonus screen on Indeed that has one of a dozen sample 20-line programs and you just have to point out which line is incorrect in the program.
Exciting stuff!

How does it compare to lithium if a battery is punctured or exposed? More or less toxic / flammable?
I’ve tried tab groups in safari, which seemed like the perfect feature for me, but I always forget to switch before opening new, unrelated tabs.

Bookmark-all-and-close works pretty well since I’ve literally never gone back and looked at the bookmarks in the 15ish years I’ve been using the approach. Groups would solve a different problem (task-specific tabs get mixed together) but add enough friction that I simply don’t use them.
Same here. What are the chances of that Mozilla rep actually using Chrome (which actually does auto-unload tabs these days)?
The fundamental point here is that Palestine is not a sovereign nation. Gaza and the West Bank are both essentially colonies of Israel. In the case of West Bank, territory is being slowly appropriated. And Gaza is like an open-air prison. The residents are essentially disenfranchised Israelis. That's the Apartheid comparison. Israel has options to rectify, but until they do, they are de facto oppressors. None of that is fabricated. It is not point for point identical to South Africa, but that's just parsing. They are oppressors and that's the reality.

I am pretty familiar with ultra-orthodox. I've spent a lot of time with chabad people. Their culture is genuinely pretty nuts. They suck up public money, put their kids into private religious schools that don't teach basics, run their own private police forces, extort politicians as a voting bloc, run private towns (see Kiryas Joel) where they take over county government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyregion/hasidic-yeshivas...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-vi...

Sure, fabricated stories exist and plenty of morons believe them. Judaism is fabricated too as far as I'm concerned, but people can believe what they want. I am judging people on their actions.
I love the Caps Lock key, because I remap it to Compose.
> Who ever answers these questions truthfully though?

It's surprising how many candidates will say batshit crazy things not realizing they're bat shit crazy.

It's like fizzbuzz at this point, just cuts out a surprisingly large chunk of the cruft out.
Opening people's eyes is a good thing.
I recently discovered that Feynman had given lectures on computation. I thought this might interest hacker news, as they are well written, in a conversational style.

Most importantly, I believe that chapter 5 on reversible computation and the thermodynamics of computing presents the spirit of the work done by Feynman while he was at thinking machines. This addresses a topic which often comes up on hacker news: how did Feynman use differential equations to describe a binary system?
There's a state monopoly on hydroelectricity in Québec and we pay the lowest rates in North America while Hydro-Québec pumps a billion dollars into provincial government coffers every year.
There are lots of government-enforced monopolies
It’s not the sole reason but given that billing is based on it (ICD codes). I can see your point.

I remember the bean counters from the hospital going over with scribes and doctors on how to “properly” document all the necessary elements to bill for a procedure. All of it was very very boring.

“We can bill for ED physician prelim reads of radiology studies but it needs to have at least 3 or more findings documented. “

So let’s say a an ed physician orders a chest xray to r/o pneumonia vs bronchitis. Have to document in chart something like: “3 view chest xray; no infiltrates, no pleural effusion, no pneumothorax; received by X doctor”

In reality, most doctors would just put “reviewed 3v cxr, no infiltrates”. No need to document negative findings that contribute nothing.

Prior to EMRs, hand written notes and charts were absolutely god awful to read. Physician and nurse short hand is not standardized. Plus some doctors handwriting is just atrocious.

EMRs helped standardize communication between multiple parties (both medical and non-medical). Like others have mentioned, it could have been a way to track standards of care across multiple hospitals or across the US. Unfortunately with the gold rush to get a product out there, all we got was 9-10 different proprietary EMR systems that do not have interoperability.

CT scan performed in Virginia and needs to get reviewed by doctor in California? The hardcopy of the images uses some proprietary viewer that is only accessible within the same system the Virginia hospital used. I remember a few cases of this when we had transfers from out of state. Either hospital physician gets their own additional scan and official read or waits for physical images from other hospital to view. I think in a CT this can be hundreds of images/slices. (Don’t quote me on this, this was a decade ago lol)
hahah. No...this is how we got into this situation. You'd be surprised how many CS grads can't do fizzbuzz, or maybe they can do fizzbuzz but they don't quite get recursion or graphs, much less harder concepts..
> How can that not be said for anything anywhere that becomes an obvious monopoly?

I can't hook up my own ISP or manufacture my own prescription drugs quite as easily as I can put up solar panels or buy a generator.
I built a truenas server last December and I was hesitating between core and scale. I went with scale since I have been using debian for a while and never saw any reason to switch away from it. Glad I did.
If you're involved in a hiring process, that is part of your regular duties. If the sum total of the things you need to get done can't be done in a reasonable amount of time each week, then it's your job to push back. Working 20 and 30 hours a week of overtime to get things done is just a recipe for inefficiency, burnout, and health problems.
A lot of software doesn't really follow the business/consumer model though, and is either outright public infrastructure or de-facto public infrastructure. Something like train ticket machines are a good example – I don't know what the current situation is because I haven't been there in years, but for a long time the train ticket machines on the Dutch/German border were a completely unusable mess of confusion. How can you mess something like this up so badly? I don't know, but they did. And then there are things like tax services, e-identity services, and all of that, much of which is far more complex, and easier to screw up.

De-facto public infrastructure are things like banking, energy companies, stuff like that. "Public infrastructure" is perhaps not entirely the right term for this, but it is something more or less anyone is expected to be able to use, and where competition is often limited (or sometimes even non-existent).

Remember the UK Post Office scandal? While I strongly feel the main cause was not the software[1], one reason the cunts in charge manage to gaslight people for so long was because the software is so complex, difficult, and does suck.

[1]: Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013418
What to do about it - hit these oil companies, including the Saudi ones, with a huge class action law suit. Additionally US government must fine heavily instances of collusion and oligopoly so that others thinking of following path will be deterred.
I'm also interested in talking with you, acuozzo. Do you have an email addr for people to reach you?

I can offer encouragement and a set of attitudes that enable me to do archival/writing on top of parenting + day job duties.
What does matter though is if you can affect the distribution with your vote. I would guess it is harder to affect oil companies, that are often located in other countries than your own.
Except, last year electric prices were so high in Europe. As in 10 times higher. If it wasnt for thr government stepping in, our family business would've been decimated.
They’re in it for the money.

They’ve made some claims that are downright lies, I chuckle at the idea anyone would trust them.

The NYC subway ads state that they save you from online web ad systems; blatantly false.

I’ll take a photo next time I see the ad to store away.
LoRA Land: 310 Fine-Tuned LLMs That Rival GPT-4, a Technical Report
"We should be making AI a copilot—not the autopilot—for learning."

Doesn't work. A friend has been a teacher, at a not cheap private school, for going on 25+ years now. What she sees at almost every level is an avalanche of LLM "cheating". Even when there is extreme upfront emphasis on "this course is to help you learn, not just do whatever to find the 'correct' answers as quickly and easily as possible" the majority of students do the latter. She guesses that at least half are pasting in answers without even reviewing them. There are of course the few students that are there out of passion for learning, but those are the exceptions. This doesn't just apply to CS.

There are cultural and political ramifications that make enforcing this difficult (read rich parents that want those good grades). So she struggles along trying to swim against the current of LLM answers.

Quoting her directly, from about a month ago, "If they cannot type something into their phones and get an instant answer they're not interested."
> Why It's Hard to Get Hired Despite Glowing Jobs Reports

.. perhaps because jobs numbers are now partisan and politicized, and no longer reflect reality.
Ok, so any time bad corporate behavior causing inflation comes up, I have to wonder -- how much oil stock would you need to own for this contribution to inflation to be good for you (outweigh your increased costs)?

When price increases cause greater revenue to asset holders from consumers, there's some spectrum of spending to asset holding, and most people that own nothing are losing out, and Warren Buffett who owns a lot but is famously modest in his lifestyle is benefiting ... but how would you estimate where the breakeven point is? Is a lean FIRE person benefiting? Exxon stock has had a really strong 3 years, but we don't get to observe the counter-factual of how it would have behaved without this price-fixing.
Fair point. I suppose I meant no Americans are allowed to lose money. I am not an expert but what springs to mind (for me) is the oil/gas industry. If the cost of fuel increases for any reason that's it- your next election will not go well. So we usually end up keeping subsidies, tax cuts, etc. but adding more incentives to something else such as green energy- or at least it seems that way. You can't take a thumb off of the scale but you can always add more thumbs. Because nobody is allowed to lose money.
> plastering privacy propaganda all over some major U.S. cities

The ads are great to see in NYC subway and giant billboard near NY Times HQ.

Is there an online page with all of the ads? Maybe a video tour of the ads "in the wild" in different cities?
If we're going to burn the dead standing wood and other organic matter, why not produce biochar and syngas from it? Companies such as All Power Labs (allpowerlabs.com) produce pallet size devices that can be taken to the source of the wood and convert them there. The biochar produced can be introduced back into the ground, or used on farmland, and is essentially carbon negative. The syngas can be used to produce electricity in a generator, or for heating purposes (boiling/distilling water, heating homes, drying foods, etc.). It seems wasteful to just inefficiently burn it and dump large amounts of smoke into the air when we can use it for energy purposes or to improve the soil. Allowing it to compost produces methane, which is a worse greenhouse gas, so that's not a great option, sadly.
Lesser energy density is a pretty big caveat that can readily make or break the commercial viability of this technology. How big of a difference compared to lithium ion is the energy density?
> Jobs in tech, finance, law, and accounting were essentially flat or slightly down.

If you want a to know the true state of the software engineering job market, I think sites like hnhiringtrends [1] illustrate the situation nicely.

[1] https://www.hnhiringtrends.com
Since 2022, the majority of EVs manufactured have no cobalt in their batteries. Most manufacturers use lithium iron phosphate chemistry (LFP), which is cheaper and safer than NMC or NCA. The cobalt-based chemistries are only used in higher performance vehicles, where LFP's lower energy density becomes a problem.
DoorDash won't let you tip NYC drivers without the app
I wonder how much of this is:

- Company lists position
- Company interviews citizens.
- Company claims it can’t find any qualified citizens
- Company hires immigrants, paying them less
How does this differ from Vampr and Bandmix, which claim to be the same thing?
What exactly are you proposing goes in this generator?
On iOS it's also possible it's also possible to block Wi-fi data but only on iPhones sold in China: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/312430
Actually OTP hardware devices are a proper solution to this, but banks are mostly deprecating them, unfortunately.
Wait until they find out about OPEC.
Private Equity really is a pox on society.

One reason they may not be able to hire is that they paid a ton to buy out all the competition and now have a bunch of investors wanting to see high rates of return. That requires cutting staff and raising prices. I'm all for a free society that allows private parties to make agreements, but PE is by definition all about breaking markets by creating a monopoly where they have large amounts of market power and where no competition can realistically occur. The end result is consumers getting screwed all over.
Tesla's Supercharger layoffs couldn't have come at a worse time
Those errors don't really catch up to you until your late 40s, when your health is shot, your bank account is empty, and you don't really have enough time left to dig your way out of the hole you're in.

That's about the stage we're at.
Something I'm still looking for is a way to manage "browser stuff" which would fit my workflow.

Basically I want to be able to turn a window full of tabs into some kind of document, where I can add metadata about the window and tabs, organized into sections, and which creates an archive of each page while maintaining the option of reloading the latest version if it still happens to exist.

This would also involve a better way to select a bunch of tabs at once and move them to the window they belong on.

If anyone knows of something which works this way, I'd love to hear about it.
Perhaps, but maybe your CS degree comes from a university I haven't heard of. Perhaps it was ages ago and you haven't coded in years. Perhaps it was an entirely theoretical degree with no coding at all. Perhaps you are lying. FizzBuzz takes considerably less time and effort to verify your basic coding ability than checking all of these things.
I disagree. I use Linux (including Ubuntu), Windows and Android apps regularly, on fairly decent hardware. Most apps I would describe as having "OK" to "tolerable" performance. Some I would call "draggy", and a few I would call outright pigs.

Again, off the top of my head I can't think of a single application I would describe as "snappy". Or, put another way, I can't think of an application that, in recent memory, really impressed me by how well it performed.
This should be nicely solved with something like the xreal glasses. Lie the deck down and have the display right in front of your eyes regardless of how you hold the input device.
Show HN: Stepping stones puzzle implemented as a game
I'm a big fan of the stepping stones programming puzzle due to its simple rules, as posted on Al Zimmerman's contests: http://azspcs.com/Contest/SteppingStones

So I made it into a little web game available here: http://steppinston.es/

Made with PIXI.js, should be playable both on desktop and mobile. Please let me know what you think!
Damn this piques my interest, would love to hear more:

jhg7nm at Virginia.edu
I literally had a guy who was giving off really hostile vibes in the interview talk about shouting at someone when he didn't agree on the solution. Given this was a workplace where people argued a technical approach with cussing and yelling I didn't need more of that.

I agree you'd think this is the dumbest question, and most people will make up something minor, but it does weed people out.
> I go to the same set of pages all the time

Maybe this could be a clue as to what's happening: What if other people have different use cases and needs?

Even between work and personal browsing I use my browsers quite differently. At work, tabs are more of a to-do list (things I need to review/sign off etc.); for personal, tabs are a largely a reading list.

I'd never just remember all things people want me to take a look at and type them in the search history, so tabs solve that nicely for me.
I like the idea of a hybrid, but I need around 100 miles to make it worth the transition for me, otherwise I'll just go all electric or stay part of the problem. I still need the EVs to come under 30k to make sense, as that's the upper limit I set on vehicle cost for the present.
I don't want to keep any tabs open, but I haven't found a better way for my workflow and I've tried quite a few.

My tabs fall into the following categories:

- unfinished/long running projects/topics/research: for these I use a version of the Tabs Aside! extension that I've modified, which converts them to bookmarks.

- tabs I will want to look at someday and further categorize and/or take action: for these I implemented a babashka script that when I click on an URL it fetches the page, extracts the title and displays it and asks me if I want to open it now, or save it for later in an org-file. This doesn't work, unfortunately, for URLs that I open from another FF page. For these, my long term plan involves archiving the text and doing RAG on them, as they relate to my long term interests/projects/curiosities.

- tabs I need for the actively running projects/tasks
A nuance is perhaps lost, I'm not saying don't do it, merely that simplistic messaging feeds into the binary crisis.
For BASIC's 60th, three modern BASICs release new versions
>> The question is, what can we do about it?

> Electric cars and heat pumps.

So us renters who drive long distances every day - when can we expect to come home to a 1k mi range EV and discover our landlord installed an EV charging system and new heat pumps? Because that sounds like a pretty awesome day.
Shipfast is a next.js boilerplate, mine is a Node.js/express boilerplate. If you compare the tech stack and the way the two products are built you'll realise they couldn't be more different.
Well, judging by how incredibly many EU citizens emigrate to Switzerland, which is directly caused by the bilateral treaties, there's certainly interest from both parties to negotiate. Switzerland also pays raw cash to the EU as part of the deal.

I'm not sure how long the EU can afford to further alienate countries that pay net positive into it's wallet, after losing the UK and the continuing rise of euroscepticism.
Any thoughts on how your project will compare to CozoDB?

https://github.com/cozodb/cozo
Sorry, not buying it. To claim that you stop online ad networks is a downright falsehood and you know it.

That copy should’ve never made it past basic checks for legitimacy.

Or alternatively: feel free to describe to HN how Mulvad protects users against ad networks.
It should be, agreed, but you'd be shocked at how many CS degree holders can't do it. That's the thing with a lot of the nightmares in interviews. They're there because there is a huge number of people who apply, lie about their abilities, and need to be filtered.

It's also incredibly difficult to fire poor performers in most modern companies, so managers are very touchy about who they hire.
Way too much overhead for many of the things I use tabs for.

Frequently, the time it takes me to action whatever I have a tab open for takes as long as adding it to, reloading it from, and marking it off of a to-do list.
> What exactly are you proposing goes in this generator?

Whatever fuel you have access to that's cheapest. For most people, that will be natural gas or propane.
Yeah, and I'm not in a protected demographic [1], so rejections can be completely no-cause for me and there's not really anything I can do about it.

It wouldn't have bothered me as much if I hadn't wasted my time with the idiotic personality test they made me take that took way too much time. If they weren't going to hire me, that's fine, I'm not entitled to a job from this company, but I think they should just be courteous and minimize how much time is wasted. When recruiters call me for a job I don't want, I try as soon as possible to say something like "I'm not interested, I don't really want to waste your time, so I'm going to hang up now". It might come off as rude, but at least I cannot be accused of leading anyone on.

[1] I guess outside of maybe religion since I'm an atheist? That never really comes up during interview though, and I very much doubt that's ever been the reason I'm rejected.